Campus Technology: Making the Business Case for the Cloud

Higher Education and the Cloud

12/7/2011

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Cloud Control
In the second of a two-part series, CT looks at how IT professionals can make the business case for cloud computing while addressing ongoing concerns about taking their institutions into the cloud.
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News

Cloud-Based Mobile Solution Targets Early Learners
Hatch unveiled its new cloud-based mobile technology for early education, iStartSmart Mobile, that delivers interactive learning activities and progress monitoring tools in a tablet device.
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Cloud Computing Traffic Could Reach 1.6 Zettabytes Annually by 2015
A new industry forecast is predicting that cloud computing will account for 33 percent of all data center traffic by 2015--triple the current percentage and about 12 times the total current volume.
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Kettering U Deploys Cloud-Based Recruitment Tool
A small, private university in Michigan has deployed a new student recruitment manager to help meet aggressive enrollment goals for its undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
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Microsoft Touts Live@edu Stats, Prepares for Move to Office365 for Education
Microsoft has revealed that Live@edu, the company's free, hosted collaboration and communications service for education, now has more than 22 million users, a 100 percent increase in the past year.
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Solaris 11 Brings Enhanced Virtualization to Cloud-Centric OS
Oracle has released its Solaris 11 operating system (OS), which the company previewed last month at the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 event in San Francisco. Solaris 11 provides built-in virtualization capabilities for OS, network, and storage resources and is designed to run enterprise applications in private, hybrid, or public clouds. Oracle described it as the first fully virtualized, cloud OS.
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Feature

Cloud Control

News

Cloud-Based Mobile Solution Targets Early Learners

Cloud Computing Traffic Could Reach 1.6 Zettabytes Annually by 2015

Kettering U Deploys Cloud-Based Recruitment Tool

Microsoft Touts Live@edu Stats, Prepares for Move to Office365 for Education

Solaris 11 Brings Enhanced Virtualization to Cloud-Centric OS

Professional Resources